Jul 19, 2020Member-onlyAbout neuronal modelsIn 1976 the statistician George Box mentioned that all models are wrong, but some are useful. He was right. When we try limit our understanding about the world and express it in the mathematical terms, almost always we would be able to find exceptions. …Computational Biology4 min read
Jun 8, 2020About human epilepsyFinally, we have submitted our paper to the journal after 3 years of hard work. It was a long journey with ups and downs, so now it is a good occasion to share the main points of our research. Epilepsy is very common neurological disorder, it affects nearly 1% of…Epilepsy3 min read
Apr 8, 2020Humans, mice and brain evolutionWe recently prepared the manuscript for bioarxiv and submitted to the journal. It took almost 3 years for the whole team to make this work. Here is a little summary of what we found with the intro. So, I decided to practice my sci comm skills. According to Carl Sagan…Brain4 min read
Nov 28, 2018Human and mouse neuronsFinally, our article on human and mouse neurons has been published! The picture above shows the neurons of a human and a mouse. Human and mouse neurons are similar overall, but they also have substantial differences. For example, human neurons are bigger and have more branches. Comparing human and mouse…Neuroscience3 min read
Oct 30, 2018News from the world of epilepsyFinally, the article I began working on at the University of Washington has come out. This work began as a side project, but it ultimately led to journal publication. As often happens, you never know for sure which project will work. To give you an overview of this work, I…Neuroscience3 min read
Jul 4, 2017Epilepsy and mathhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxQsRpH8frU&feature=youtu.be Recently I have started doing epilepsy research again due to my job, yet I did not know that studying the disease could tell us a lot about our brains. Recently in our institute there was a talk by Josef Parvizi from Stanford. He was talking about mapping of brain…Neuroscience4 min read
Published in PLOS Comp Biol Field Reports Blog·Nov 13, 2016What do the birds speak about? #SfN16We all know it takes a while to study the foreign language, but how does it happen? How come that the meaningless mumbling starts making sense? We are not born with the ability to understand an arbitrary language, but are able to learn it from the other humans. Using self-introspection…Birds3 min read
Published in PLOS Comp Biol Field Reports Blog·Nov 11, 2016Live updates from #SfN16Live updates from #SfN16 Hello world! I just arrived to San Diego for Society for Neuroscience conference 2016. For the sake of brevity I will call it #SfN16. I will be writing coverage for the topics I find exciting at this conference. I am a post-doc working at University of Washington in Seattle. At #SfN16 I will present my research as a computational neuroscientist about development of neural network aiming to explain seizure mechanisms. We developed the realistic model capable partially explain the initiation of seizures recorded in slices of the human brain. More information about my research be found here or check out my poster, 16 November M10.Neural Networks1 min read
